LilyPond syntax highlighting in Sublime Text 2 & 3.

ANNOUNCEMENT: Using Atom or TextMate instead? SubLilyPond ports to these editors are now available (AtLilyPond, tmLilyPond).

This project aims at providing comprehensive and consistent syntax highlighting of GNU LilyPond code in Sublime Text 2 and 3.

Future versions may include a LilyPond build engine and snippets/autcompletions. Feel free to contact me for feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions.

Music scholars seeking a complete typesetting solution may be interested in LyTeXTools, my LilyPond-enabled fork of Marciano Siniscalchi’s LaTeXTools package.

SubLilyPond is distributed via Will Bond's superb Package Control. Alternatively, you may clone (or copy the contents of) this repository into your Sublime Text packages folder:

git clone http://github.com/yrammos/SubLilyPond.git

SubLilyPond is a LilyPond syntax definition, not a color scheme. It enables Sublime Text to distinguish the various syntactical elements in the LilyPond code, yet the particular color assigned to each element is defined elsewhere, in the active color scheme. A wide range of schemes is freely available, for example via Package Control. Not all schemes provide the highest level of visual differentiation, so you may need to test several.

You may easily optimize SubLilyPond for use with your favorite color scheme by tweaking the scope names of the syntax definition. See this if you really insist on doing so.

Since no Scheme syntax definition is currently available for Sublime Text 2 or 3, SubLilyPond parses embedded Scheme code using the Lisp syntax definition. Scheme is a Lisp dialect, of course, and this workaround has caused no glitches so far.

• Hides partial syntax definitions such as "LilyPond figured bass" from the status bar menu, as they are intended for internal use. (Feature available only in Sublime Text 3.)

• Support for the Toggle Comment and Toggle Block Comment editor commands
• Support for new LilyPond 2.18 keywords
• Bug fixes and minor improvements

This significant update provides:

• Support for previously unsupported LilyPond modes:
  • chord mode
  • figured bass
  • markup modes
  • lyrics modes
  • drum modes
• Note mode improvements, with proper highlighting of:
  • time signatures
  • tempo ranges
  • scaling durations
  • circled fingerings
  • ligatures
  • abbreviated tremolo notation

Please include the following with your bug reports: screenshot, LilyPond snippet manifesting the issue, short issue description, and the name of your color scheme.

The list of keywords in the first release of SubLilyPond was an extended version of Heikki Junes's syntax definition for vim, which comes bundled with LilyPond.

Copyright © 2013 by Yannis Rammos. This work is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.